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Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 70-minute worldwide look at the weekend.
7.50
Travel news and What's on 7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.30* Sportsdesk; at 8.45 Today's Papers
8.59 Weather

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel

Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad, starting with 9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
NORMAN HUNT reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by BRYAN MARTIN
9.45 Talking Politics
A look at politics, policies and politicians during the Parliamentary Recess
Introduced by ANTHONY KING Narrator MARTIN MUNCASTER Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE , ANNE SLOMAN

Contributors

Read By:
Bryan Martin
Introduced By:
Anthony King
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Bernard Tate

Chairman ROBERT ROBINSON 12: Wales (n)
BARRY OWEN (Flintshire) chemist
DAVID PEART (Flintshire) printer
JOHN THACKRAH (Cardiganshire) student
MRS ANN PERKINS (Carmarthen) Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm) Paperback, 35p: see page 66
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Barry Owen
Unknown:
David Peart
Unknown:
Ann Perkins
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
Martin Fisher

Conference by KEITH MILES with Jon Rollason
Arthur Skene is the duly elected Secretary of the Associated Society of Machinists and Factory Workers, or is he?
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jon Rollason
Unknown:
Arthur Skene
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Len Lorimer:
Graham Rigby
Arthur Skene:
Jon Rollason
Owen Timms:
Alan David
Willie Robinson:
Leslie Dunn
Vernon MOY:
John Corvin
Maisie Ross:
Eileen Barry
Frank McCulloch:
Andrew Crawford
Edith Farrar:
Penelope Shaw
David Jellicoe:
Roger Milner
Joan Skene:
Rosemary Dorken
Policeman:
George Woolley

Introduced by Judith Chalmers The Week in Woman's Hour Guest: Dame Rebecca West
Moving into Europe: follow the fortunes and problems of the Ellis family leaving England to live in Hamburg for two years
What the European papers say. Is there a Coronary Type? PAUL VAUGHAN investigates Love in a Wych-Elm by H. e. BATES abridged by MYRA PINE read by ROY SPENCER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Abridged By:
Myra Pine
Read By:
Roy Spencer

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John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners Adventures of the Incredible Dr McLoon by BRIAN THOMPSON With JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS and CAROLE HAYMAN. Producer TONY CLIFF
4.5 Great Day
The excitement, the background, the organisation and the personalities behind some of the outstanding events of the year.
This month: FA Cup Final -the climax of the football year at Wembley Stadium which takes place next Saturday.
Presented by DICK TRACEY
Producer NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
4.25 Animals Unlimited Competition
Introduced by PHIL DRABBLE Prizes to be won!
Entries to: 4th Dimension, BBC, London W1A 4WW
4.30 Kick Off: Six-part serial by NOEL STREATFEILD about a young northern footballer and his family
6: The Grand Final
Producer TREVOR HILL Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Brian Thompson
Unknown:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Unknown:
Carole Hayman.
Presented By:
Dick Tracey
Producer:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Introduced By:
Phil Drabble
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Editor:
Graham Gauld
Mrs Bean:
Hope Johnstone
Mr Bean:
Graham Roberts
Billy:
Simon Lennon
Anne:
Maggie Peacock
Velma:
Helen Worth
Charles:
Andrew Harrison
Mr Neil:
Graham Tennant
Bouncer:
Jack Carr
Physio:
John Ljnstrum
Georgie:
Peter Landon
Gordon:
Peter Ellis
Mrs Heythorpe:
Madeleine Vacher
Miss OsgOOd:
Carole Turner
Commentator:
Maurice Edelston

A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. People, ideas and events in the world of arts and sciences.
Introduced by Robert Hewison Producers LOUISE PURSLOW
MICHAEL BRIGHT, ALAN HAYDOCK
5.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Hewison
Producers:
Louise Purslow
Unknown:
Alan Haydock

Mutiny on the Bounty dramatised for radio by ROBERT CUSHMAN from the novel by CHARLES NORDHOFF and JAMES NORMAN HALL with Geoffrey Matthews Martin Jarvis and Geoffrey Beevers
'No laws are more just than those governing the conduct of men at sea.... Sea law is stern but it has the authority of centuries .. for discipline must be preserved and mutiny and piracy suppressed.'
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Cushman
Novel By:
Charles Nordhoff
Novel By:
James Norman Hall
Unknown:
Geoffrey Matthews
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Geoffrey Beevers
Producer:
Roger Pine
Mr Roger Byam:
Geoffrey Beevers
Sir Joseph Banks:
William Eedle
Lt William Bligh:
Geoffrey Matthews
Act Lt Fletcher Christian:
Martin Jarvis
Mr Hayward:
Sean Arnold
Mr Fryer:
Wilfrid Carter
Old Bacchus:
Garard Green
Capt Courtney:
John Samson
Morrison:
Richard Hampton
Mr Samuel:
John Bryning
Ellison:
Bill Lyons
Mr Stewart:
Gareth Johnson
Mr Nelson:
Alexander John
Churchill:
Sean Arnold
Mr Purcell:
Nigel Lambert
Mr Tinkler:
Bill Lyons
Hitihiti:
Garard Green
Maimiti:
Sandra Clark

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